I am about to join into teacher training, in order to do this I (obviously) need to be vetted to make sure I haven't been kiddie fiddling or the like.
To actually do this check with modern technology takes about fifteen to twenty minutes, however because of the way the local government and police system is set up it can take up to three months before the results come back, it also costs between £30 and £50. Which your sponsoring school pays. Now this is frustrating for me due to the expense and the wait, I get to be unemployed and broke whilst they get their affairs in order.
But the really stupid part is this, in our cash strapped school system where we struggle for books, the check has to be redone every three years for every member of staff, which sometimes in a large state school can be around the 200 person mark. So that's about £600 pounds out of the school budget, this goes to the governments coffers no doubt to par for moat cleaning etc.
And the final worst kicker is this, if you have been convicted of an offence chances are you will have been fired from your current school and that will show in your reference, if you have committed an offence and not been caught you would not show up on the check anyway.
So after you become a teacher this expensive and pointless checking system does nothing it's more red tape there to screw with people and milk more money out to whatever quango is in charge!
To actually do this check with modern technology takes about fifteen to twenty minutes, however because of the way the local government and police system is set up it can take up to three months before the results come back, it also costs between £30 and £50. Which your sponsoring school pays. Now this is frustrating for me due to the expense and the wait, I get to be unemployed and broke whilst they get their affairs in order.
But the really stupid part is this, in our cash strapped school system where we struggle for books, the check has to be redone every three years for every member of staff, which sometimes in a large state school can be around the 200 person mark. So that's about £600 pounds out of the school budget, this goes to the governments coffers no doubt to par for moat cleaning etc.
And the final worst kicker is this, if you have been convicted of an offence chances are you will have been fired from your current school and that will show in your reference, if you have committed an offence and not been caught you would not show up on the check anyway.
So after you become a teacher this expensive and pointless checking system does nothing it's more red tape there to screw with people and milk more money out to whatever quango is in charge!
